OLD-TIME JERSEYS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 15 April 1922, Page 3

OLD-TIME JERSEYS.

The admirers of Jersey cattle may be interested in the career of a society founder 1833 for the advancement of

breeders' interests, says a writer in the Australasian. A grant of £100 a year was set aside for its assistance By the States of Jersey from then tiil Io4l! ir> 1844 it was recognised by the Royal Society of England, special premiums being offered for competition. This brought along-a number of Jersey farmers, who won several prizes. In 1847, 1848, and 1849 there was much agricultural depression, but in 1850 a revival of the cattle trade tosk place. In 1863 Jersey cattle-were exported to the United States, and were 'favourably imported upon. Twenty-five years after the foundation of the society, the annual report describes the cattle of 1828 a* "ill-shaped beasts that knew not the taste of mangels, carrots, or swedes,

: nor scarcely that of hay, whose food consisted of straw and watery turnips." In 1866 the herd book was inaugurated, \vhich enabled the tracing of pedigrees Up till 1871 America was a good, customer, and in 1872 a two-year-old heifer "was soJd to the country for £110. This was considered a phenomena! price at the time but was eclipsed a few years Inter, when. £1000 was realised for a single animai.